Yokogawa deal with Gazprom

Amersfoort, The Netherlands - Yokogawa Electric Corp. is to supply  four JSC Gazprom Neft oil refineries, under a strategic partnership agreement betwen the companies . The deal covers integrated production control systems and operation support software for efficiency improvement and event analysis. Yokogawa said it will also support a Gazprom programme for reducing total cost of ownership by offering technical support with the design, delivery, service, operation, and engineering of control systems.

Gazprom's four refineries include the Omsk refinery, Russia's largest such facility with an annual throughput of around 16 million tonnes. According to the Japanese vendor, its deal with Gazprom is linked to an evaluation of its technologies at Sibur, Russia's largest petrochemical and chemicals group, which entered a similar arrangement with Yokogawa In 2006.